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Li Xiaohong, a former senior disciplinary official in charge of national inspection, is being investigated by China’s anti-corruption authorities. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

China’s anti-corruption watchdog targets its former senior official Li Xiaohong

The 73-year-old who retired nine years ago from the CCDI is suspected of ‘serious violations of discipline and law’.

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Mainland China

Video | China’s top cartographer under corruption probe

Science

Top Chinese map-making scientist Zhou Chenghu netted in anti-corruption sweep

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Banking & finance

China appoints top regulatory official as financial clean-up drive continues

Ding Xiangqun takes up key role at the National Financial Regulatory Administration, one month after her predecessor was removed.

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Ding Xiangqun has been appointed as new Party chief of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) after her predecessor Li Yunze was removed from the position. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

China sentences former Shaolin abbot to 24 years for corruption

Disgraced leader should be ‘severely punished’ according to law, court says, calling circumstances of his bribery ‘particularly serious’.

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Central Military Commission

Fate of China’s ex-defence heads shows party won’t allow disloyalty: state media

Editorial from Chinese military’s official newspaper marks the first time that Li Shangfu has been labelled a traitor.

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Defence

2 former Chinese defence ministers handed suspended death sentences

Sentences for Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu are the most severe for senior military officers since anti-corruption campaign began in 2012.

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Former Chinese defence ministers Li Shangfu (left) and Wei Fenghe were sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of corruption. Photo composite: AP and Reuters
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Former CSRC chairman Yi Huiman to face trial for taking bribes, abusing power

Communist Party’s top anti-graft watchdog wraps up investigation into Yi’s activities with long list of allegations.

Badminton World Federation (BWF)

China’s anti-corruption body probes badminton association chief Zhang Jun

Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, who is also vice-president of Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed ‘under disciplinary review’.

Law

China targets middlemen in renewed crackdown on ‘hidden’ corruption

The top court and prosecutor signal how the criminal law can be aimed at the enablers of graft.

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Intermediaries in the corruption process are a focus of a new judicial interpretation. Photo: EPA-EFE
Central Military Commission

Xi tells senior officers to ‘stay pure’ after Chinese military’s anti-graft drive

Speech live-streamed to PLA’s high-level units calls for resolute political loyalty with no room for self-interest or corruption.

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President Xi Jinping addresses the training session for high-ranking Chinese military officials in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China puts Ma Xingrui protege Guo Yonghang under corruption investigation

Fate of ‘right-hand man’ deepens mystery around former Guangdong governor and Xinjiang party chief who has not been seen for months.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Chinese financial regulator and ex-corruption fighter Zhou Liang under probe

Authorities have zeroed in on the once-elite and opaque financial sector since the 2022 party congress.

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Mainland China

Former Shaolin Temple abbot indicted for bribery and embezzlement

Prosecutors formally charge ‘CEO monk’ Shi Yongxin four months after his arrest following financial and sexual scandals.

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Beyond embezzlement and bribery allegations, Shi Yongxin has also been accused of violating Buddhist principles, maintaining “improper relations” with multiple women and fathering at least one child. Photo: SCMP
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Chongqing mayor under investigation as anti-corruption crackdown gathers pace

Hu Henghua is the highest-ranking official to fall from grace in the southwestern megacity in nearly a decade.

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Hu Henghua, mayor of Chongqing, is one of four full-ministerial-level officials to be investigated by anti-corruption authorities so far this year. Photo: Handout
Science

Liu Guozhi, once top PLA scientist, wiped off Chinese Academy of Sciences site

High-power microwave weapon expert was elected to the nation’s top scientific body in 2009.

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China's military weapons

J-20 fighter jet designer scrubbed from Chinese Academy of Sciences website

Yang Wei has not appeared in public for more than a year, and it comes amid an anti-corruption campaign in the defence sector.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Former banker and Hubei party boss indicted for accepting ‘huge’ bribes

Jiang Chaoliang, who was party chief when Covid-19 first hit the province, is accused of illicit activity dating back to the 1990s.

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In a CCTV documentary from earlier this year, Jiang Chaoliang confesses that a businessman spent over a decade cultivating close ties with his family and paid for his children’s education and medical care for his parents. Photo: CCTV
Two Sessions 2026

China eyes cross-border corruption law. Will it blunt the ‘long arm’ of the US?

Beijing to pass law aimed at preventing corruption by Chinese companies operating overseas after courts recover billions in illegal gains.

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CPPCC

Video | China removes 3 generals from national advisory body

The dismissal of Han Weiguo, Gao Jin and Liu Lei comes just days before Beijing’s largest annual political gathering.

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China’s war on corruption – is this just the end of the beginning?

More ‘tigers’ are being culled than ever before in a campaign that could be becoming the new normal.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Generals stripped of CPPCC roles as China’s corruption clean-up continues

The official dismissal confirms the fall of Han Weiguo, the PLA Central Theatre Command’s inaugural commander.

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Han Weiguo, pictured in 2017, is one of three former senior generals whose seats on China’s political advisory body have been revoked. Photo: Handout
Two Sessions 2026

‘Two sessions’, Trump tariffs, JD.com earnings

This week: Lawmakers ready for China’s ‘two sessions’, Trump imposes new global tariffs, Germany’s Merz meets Xi. Next week: JD.com reports earnings, toughened trade measures kick in, manufacturing PMI comes outs, Honor debuts robot, and more.

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Is this the end of the golden age of Chinese think tanks with star ex-officials?

Two cases involving corruption raise questions about the future of a model that has thrived for the past decade.

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Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Exclusive | China widens anti-corruption net to catch ‘quasi-naked officials’

Top graft-busters quietly step up scrutiny of officials with children living overseas, with some losing promotion opportunities and jobs.

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For more than a decade, “naked officials” have been banned from leadership positions in state or Communist Party organs, and insiders say the restrictions are tightening. Photo: AFP
China’s Communist Party

Chinese journalists who accused a party official of corruption released

Case in Sichuan province raises fresh concerns about abuse of power and the shrinking space for media oversight and public expression.

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Liu Hu is a veteran Chinese investigative reporter who faces charges of “making false accusations” and conducting “illegal business operations”. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

Video | Nanjing Museum accused of selling donated art to collectors

Museum admits to ‘systemic problems’, pledges reform after ‘severe’ damage caused to image of cultural and museum industry.

Crime in China

China’s Nanjing Museum scandal probe uncovers historic mismanagement, corruption

Museum admits to ‘systemic problems’, pledges reform after ‘severe’ damage caused to image of cultural and museum industry.

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